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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, -- Arthur Miller
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See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals ... -- Arthur Miller
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Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas. -- Arthur Miller
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Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary. -- Arthur Miller
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I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,
and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own. -- Arthur Miller
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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being. -- Arthur Miller
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Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line. -- Arthur Miller
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Knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here? -- Arthur Miller
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. -- Arthur Miller
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Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears. -- Arthur Miller
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The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Arthur Miller
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it is an allegory of our times. -- Arthur Miller
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The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars. -- Arthur Miller
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Most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory -- Arthur Miller
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You have made your magic now -- Arthur Miller
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One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives. -- Arthur Miller
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve. -- Arthur Miller
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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. -- Arthur Miller
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Usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film ... -- Arthur Miller
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My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much. -- Arthur Miller
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Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! -- Arthur Miller
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A wild thing may say wild things. But not so wild, I think. -- Arthur Miller
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life. -- Arthur Miller
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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Miller
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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion. -- Arthur Miller
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. -- Arthur Miller
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. -- Arthur Miller
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He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people. -- Arthur Miller
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A book, a poem, a play - they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an automobile tire. -- Arthur Miller
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. -- Arthur Miller
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John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court! -- Arthur Miller
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John Proctor's flaw is his failure, until the last moment, to distinguish guilt from responsibility; America's is to believe that it is at the same time both guilty and without flaw. -- Arthur Miller
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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves -- Arthur Miller
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THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world. -- Arthur Miller
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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world. -- Arthur Miller
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. -- Arthur Miller
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? -- Arthur Miller
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Willy: Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swings between them?
Linda: Yeah, like being a million miles from the city. -- Arthur Miller
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He's liked, but he's not well liked. -- Arthur Miller
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Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it.
'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee. -- Arthur Miller
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It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man. -- Arthur Miller
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The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. -- Arthur Miller
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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. -- Arthur Miller
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. -- Arthur Miller
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. -- Arthur Miller
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. -- Arthur Miller
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To go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what -- Arthur Miller
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Willy: I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?
Ben: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. where is it?
Willy [hesitantly]: That's true, Linda, there's nothing. -- Arthur Miller
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Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. -- Arthur Miller
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Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away. -- Arthur Miller
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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. -- Arthur Miller
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. -- Arthur Miller
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow. -- Arthur Miller
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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. -- Arthur Miller
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When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich. -- Arthur Miller
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more. -- Arthur Miller
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Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away. -- Arthur Miller
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Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. -- Arthur Miller
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Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero? -- Arthur Miller
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. -- Arthur Miller
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. -- Arthur Miller
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. -- Arthur Miller
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we are only what we always were -- Arthur Miller
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The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. -- Arthur Miller
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A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression. -- Arthur Miller
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HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have
to come out number-one man. -- Arthur Miller
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Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor. -- Arthur Miller
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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! -- Arthur Miller
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Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. -- Arthur Miller
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I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody -- Arthur Miller
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I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop? -- Arthur Miller
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Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere. -- Arthur Miller
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Suicide kills two people. -- Arthur Miller
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Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. -- Arthur Miller
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Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. -- Arthur Miller
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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. -- Arthur Miller
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I am a good woman. I know it. -- Arthur Miller
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I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are all burning with the same anger at the way the world is.
The little ones have made a peace with it, and the bigger ones can't make any peace. -- Arthur Miller
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Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. -- Arthur Miller
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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember? -- Arthur Miller
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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. -- Arthur Miller
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Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him. -- Arthur Miller
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. -- Arthur Miller
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Mother: What more can we be?
Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died. -- Arthur Miller
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He plough on Sunday, Sir.
Plough on Sunday?! -- Arthur Miller
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A suicide kills two people ... that's what it's for. -- Arthur Miller
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? -- Arthur Miller
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. -- Arthur Miller
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I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing
his sense of personal dignity. -- Arthur Miller
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Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her. -- Arthur Miller
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Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. -- Arthur Miller
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Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere. -- Arthur Miller
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. -- Arthur Miller
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It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real. -- Arthur Miller
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Sometimes ... it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough. -- Arthur Miller
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The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that. -- Arthur Miller
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There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. -- Arthur Miller
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. -- Arthur Miller
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. -- Arthur Miller
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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. -- Arthur Miller
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A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong
if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long. -- Arthur Miller
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Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story. -- Arthur Miller
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! -- Arthur Miller
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He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back
that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. -- Arthur Miller
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! -- Arthur Miller
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Vulgarity has no nation. -- Arthur Miller
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When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man. -- Arthur Miller
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So many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. -- Arthur Miller
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it's the proper morning to fly into Hell. -- Arthur Miller
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. -- Arthur Miller
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One can't stand forever on the shore. At some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere -- Arthur Miller
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I am still feeling kinda temporary about myself -- Arthur Miller
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I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. -- Arthur Miller
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You never do any good until you get into some trouble. -- Arthur Miller
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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. -- Arthur Miller
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I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! -- Arthur Miller
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You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. -- Arthur Miller
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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always. -- Arthur Miller
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. -- Arthur Miller
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In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. -- Arthur Miller
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You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces. -- Arthur Miller
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We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! -- Arthur Miller
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Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next. -- Arthur Miller
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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. -- Arthur Miller
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I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. -- Arthur Miller
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There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits -- Arthur Miller
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You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her! -- Arthur Miller
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Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. -- Arthur Miller
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Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody o live in it. -- Arthur Miller
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When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back. -- Arthur Miller
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I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know ... -- Arthur Miller
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff. -- Arthur Miller
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Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions. -- Arthur Miller
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. -- Arthur Miller
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When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself. -- Arthur Miller
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. -- Arthur Miller
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If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. -- Arthur Miller
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The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. -- Arthur Miller
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The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh. -- Arthur Miller
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The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. -- Arthur Miller
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There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame. -- Arthur Miller
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! -- Arthur Miller
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All paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity -- Arthur Miller
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An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. -- Arthur Miller
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You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first. -- Arthur Miller
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other. -- Arthur Miller
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A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger. -- Arthur Miller
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Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this! -- Arthur Miller
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. -- Arthur Miller
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(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were -- Arthur Miller
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The brain heals the past like an injury ... -- Arthur Miller
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The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. -- Arthur Miller
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I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any. -- Arthur Miller
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Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. -- Arthur Miller
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. -- Arthur Miller
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. -- Arthur Miller
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Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh. -- Arthur Miller
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Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese! -- Arthur Miller
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. -- Arthur Miller
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. -- Arthur Miller
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Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked. -- Arthur Miller
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When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day. -- Arthur Miller
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I'm a fatalist ... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding. -- Arthur Miller
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Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. -- Arthur Miller
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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. -- Arthur Miller
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Without alienation, there can be no politics. -- Arthur Miller
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I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again. -- Arthur Miller
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. -- Arthur Miller
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More Weight
-Giles Corey- -- Arthur Miller
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What a woman! They broke the mould when they made her. -- Arthur Miller
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Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness. -- Arthur Miller
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When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now -- Arthur Miller
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PROCTOR
he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same! -- Arthur Miller
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. -- Arthur Miller
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Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing. -- Arthur Miller
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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. -- Arthur Miller
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Show them a stony heart and sink them with it -- Arthur Miller
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through. -- Arthur Miller
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The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress -- Arthur Miller
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Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil. -- Arthur Miller
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I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. -- Arthur Miller
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. -- Arthur Miller
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To admit what you see endangers principles. -- Arthur Miller
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On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you -- Arthur Miller
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? -- Arthur Miller
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within. -- Arthur Miller
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In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography
proper work for tired artists
but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies
they know better. -- Arthur Miller
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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. -- Arthur Miller
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur Miller
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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? -- Arthur Miller
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We have not many wills, but only one
it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether. -- Arthur Miller
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. -- Arthur Miller
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The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. -- Arthur Miller
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. -- Arthur Miller
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People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way. -- Arthur Miller
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I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. -- Arthur Miller
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Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. -- Arthur Miller
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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. -- Arthur Miller
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. -- Arthur Miller
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. -- Arthur Miller
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. -- Arthur Miller
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything. -- Arthur Miller
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. -- Arthur Miller
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An everlasting funeral marches round your heart. -- Arthur Miller
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say
I say
God is dead! -- Arthur Miller
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If you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries? -- Arthur Miller
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. -- Arthur Miller
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My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything. -- Arthur Miller
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I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead. -- Arthur Miller
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You want to live? You better figure out your life. -- Arthur Miller
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All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space -- Arthur Miller
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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star. -- Arthur Miller
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The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it. -- Arthur Miller
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. -- Arthur Miller
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You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away. -- Arthur Miller
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Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents. -- Arthur Miller
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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors. -- Arthur Miller
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On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review
as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious. -- Arthur Miller
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Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use. -- Arthur Miller
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Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data,
divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed. -- Arthur Miller
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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit -- Arthur Miller
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Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide. -- Arthur Miller
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If I have to be alone I want to be by myself. -- Arthur Miller
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But you didn't rest your mind. your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear -- Arthur Miller
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Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down! -- Arthur Miller
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If I see an ending, I can work backward. -- Arthur Miller
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Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. -- Arthur Miller
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If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -- Arthur Miller
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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. -- Arthur Miller
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Because most people ain't people. -- Arthur Miller
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We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it. -- Arthur Miller
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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult. -- Arthur Miller
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Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. -- Arthur Miller
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There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it. -- Arthur Miller
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You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore -- Arthur Miller
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It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe. -- Arthur Miller
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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. -- Arthur Miller
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Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. -- Arthur Miller
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. -- Arthur Miller
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The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. -- Arthur Miller
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There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life. -- Arthur Miller
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A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. -- Arthur Miller
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. -- Arthur Miller
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I'm one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes anymore and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home! -- Arthur Miller
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In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another. -- Arthur Miller
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To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. -- Arthur Miller
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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. -- Arthur Miller
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How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society. -- Arthur Miller
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The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ... -- Arthur Miller
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Be liked and you will never want. -- Arthur Miller
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. -- Arthur Miller
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How can they whip cheese? -- Arthur Miller
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. -- Arthur Miller
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Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public ... The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise. -- Arthur Miller
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. -- Arthur Miller
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I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time. -- Arthur Miller
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. -- Arthur Miller